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Cardiospermum grandiflorum

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Identification
Cardiospermum grandiflorum Sw. [family SAPINDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cardiospermum grandiflorum
Common name
  • kukbσbσ (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LIMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • ma-foi-ma-bana a general term for a secret society medicine of any sort used as an ointment in sickness (auctt.) ε-pur-pur (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • jikεvie (FCD) kiogange (NWT) kukui (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • gbafσ-yamba (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • balloon vine; bladder creeper; heart seed; black winter cherry., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for CARDIOSPERMUM grandiflorum Sw. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
CARDIOSPERMUM grandiflorum Sw. [family SAPINDACEAE], Prodr. 64 (1788); P.O.A. C: 249 (1895); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 372 (1932); F.P.N.A. 1: 515 (1948); F.P.S. 2: 338, fig. 124 (1952); C.F.A. 2: 74 (1954); F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 711, fig. 197 (1958); Hauman in F.C.B. 9: 285 (1960); Exell in F.Z. 2: 511, t. 101B (1966); F.P.U.: 68, fig. 24 (1972); Fouilloy & Hallé in Fl. Cameroun, 16: 17, t. 1/10–17 (1973) & in Fl. Gabon 23: 17, t. 1/10–17 (1973); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 164 (1994). Type: Jamaica, Swartz (S, holo.)
CARDIOSPERMUM hirsutum Willd. [family SAPINDACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 2: 467 (1799). Type: Ghana/Benin [Guinea], Isert in Herb. Willd. 7732 (B-W, holo.)
CARDIOSPERMUM elegans Kunth [family SAPINDACEAE], Nov. Gen. Sp. 5: 99, t. 439 (1821). Type: Peru, Humboldt & Bonpland (P, holo.)
CARDIOSPERMUM barbicaule Baker [family SAPINDACEAE], in F.T.A. 1: 418 (1868). Type: Cameroon, Mt. Cameroon, Mann 1299 (K!, holo.)
CARDIOSPERMUM grandiflorum (Willd.) Radlk. forma hirsutum [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. München 8: 260 (1878) & in E.P. IV, 165: 375 (1932)
CARDIOSPERMUM grandiflorum (Kunth) Radlk. forma elegans [family SAPINDACEAE], in Sitz. Akad. Wiss. München 8: 260 (1878) & in E.P. IV, 165: 375 (1932)
Information
Herbaceous or slightly woody climber, 0.9–8 m. long; stems deeply ridged, with short curled pubescence or with long spreading brown or golden brown hairs 3–5 mm. long. Leaves biternate or less often ternate, up to 18 cm. long, with deeply 3-lobed leaflets; petiole up to 6 cm. long, grooved, glabrous or pubescent; first order petiolules 1–3 cm. long, the central one longer or shorter than the laterals, those of ultimate leaflets 0–1 cm. long; leaflets ovate-rhombic, 1.5–9 cm. long, 1.2–4.3 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, tapering at the base, coarsely crenate, ± glabrous or with tufts of hairs in the nerve axils beneath (can be velvety in South America); lateral nerves 5–12, weak. Inflorescences spreading horizontally, paniculate, with a pair of tendrils at the apex of the peduncle; peduncle 5–10 cm. long; axis 5–10 cm. long; pedicels sometimes orange, 1–5 mm. long. Flowers sweetly scented, 6–11 mm. long; sepals 4, greenish white sometimes crimson flushed outside, unequal, the shorter 3–3.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, the longer petaloid, 6–7 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; petals white, ovate, 8–9 mm. long, scale orange-yellow, contiguous in the centre of the flower to form a cup or corona enclosing the stamens or ovary; disk extrastaminal, formed of 2 adjacent club-shaped parts 5 mm. long. Stamens white. Stigma linear, 2–5 mm. long. Fruits green, ellipsoid, 4.5–7 cm. long, 2–3 cm. wide, membranous, inflated, strongly venose; septa 3, white or pale brown, papery, 5 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, remaining after dehiscence and each bearing a seed, forming a wind sailing wing. Seed black, globose, 7 mm. diameter, glabrous, with a white rounded-ovate hilum 1.5–2 mm. long. Fig. 25/5–7.
Range
DISTR. U 2–4, K 2, 3, 5; T 1, 4; also cultivated in K 4 widespread in tropical Africa to Namibia and South Africa, central and tropical America, also introduced into Australia, Sri Lanka, Malaya and southern Europe
Altitude range
750–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA W. Suk District 80 km. N. of Kapenguria, Weiwei R. valley, Sigor, 13 Nov. 1953, Bogdan 3834! & Cherangani Hills, edge of R. Morun, near Sebit, 31 July 1969, Mabberley & McCall 99!KENYA N. Kavirondo District Kakamega Forest, Yala R. area, 10 Dec. 1956, Verdcourt 1701!TANZANIA Mwanza District Geita, Juma Is., 25 Jan. 1953, Tanner 1182!TANZANIA Kigoma District Gombe Stream Reserve, Mkenke stream, 15 Apr. 1964, Pirozynski 700!TANZANIA Buha District 16 km. N. of Kigoma, Kakombe, 7 July 1959, Newbould & Harley 4267!UGANDA Ankole Forest: Kalinzu Forest, 21 May 1961, Symes 731!UGANDA Mbale District 20 km. W. of Busia on Jinja road, W. Bugwe Forest Reserve, 6 Sept. 1950, Dawkins 632!UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, lake shore, Oct. 1931, Eggeling 27!

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